Ruby-Qt/KDE Book

Tutorial Series	Ruby
Previous	basic level of ruby skills
What's Next	n/a
Further Reading	n/a

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This tutorial uses Qt4 Ruby bindings that no longer work on Qt 5 and KDE Frameworks 5.

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About Ruby Bindings

Through the engagement of only a few guys the project Korundum on Rubyforge was raised, which allowed to use the famous Qt toolkit within the [ruby language]. The bindings were were ported to allow the use of Qt4 and KDE4. After years of development this bindings can be considered as stable for production usage. ^[1]

Future Plans

After creating a minimum of content the wiki pages will be copied into a book made with LaTeX for people prefering to work with a printed version of this set of tutorials. Afterwards the book should be synchronized with the wiki maybe every half year.

Installation

Installation Of Ruby

Installation of Ruby: setup ruby itself for end-user and developers

Installation Of Bindings

Installation on Linux: setup ruby bindings for end-user and developers on Linux-based systems

Installation on Mac OS: setup ruby bindings for end-user and developers on Apple Mac OS

Installation on Windows: setup ruby bindings for end-user and developers on Microsoft Windows

The Ruby Language

Introduction

Before starting into Ruby-KDE hacking you may want to refresh your Ruby. Or do you meet Ruby for the first time? Take a look on these sites:

http://ruby-lang.org: Official Ruby Homepage with a lot of information

Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby: Very famous ruby guide in comic style

http://tryruby.org/: Test Ruby right in your browser

http://ruby-doc.org: a lot of ruby documentation with usefull links

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_Programming: Ruby Programming from Wikibooks

Usefull Tools

http://pastie.org: Share Ruby code with friends (i.e. in IRC)

http://refactormycode.com: Share usefull code snippets in different languages and learn from other people

http://vim-ruby.rubyforge.org: Improve the Vim editor with intelligent Ruby code completion features

Ruby Editors: List from the Ruby Programming Wikibook

First Steps

Hello World: Start with some simple ruby programs using Qt

References

↑ Richard Dale: KDE Bindings in KDE 4.5. In: his blog (January 2010).

[kdebindings_stable01-1] Richard Dale: KDE Bindings in KDE 4.5. In: his blog (January 2010).

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